Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you’re in action. Ask yourself, “Does this go toward or away from what I want?” There’s an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
BARBARA SHERThe amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
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What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.
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Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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